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What defines Australian diversity? Opal Sky Media celebrates #Multiculturalism as lived experience, mixing geopolitical commentary with film analysis, exclusive ongoing video series and inter-cultural autoethnographic storytelling. Join us and explore: opalskymedia.com.au
Humbled + honoured to have been a group panel participant at the 11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations on 2025/07/09 in Qufu, Shandong, China. Theme of "Beauty in Diversity: Nurturing Understanding Among Civilizations for Global Modernization". multiculturalism?
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Reflections on the 11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations in Qufu, Shandong, China
YouTube video by A Stranger Here Myself
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July 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Humbled + honoured to have been a group panel participant at the 11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations on 2025/07/09 in Qufu, Shandong, China. Theme of "Beauty in Diversity: Nurturing Understanding Among Civilizations for Global Modernization". multiculturalism?
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Developing "an autoethnographic transmedia journey from Xinjiang to Harmony" via www.robertcettl.com Based on an Australian teacher's 12+ years in China since arriving in Xinjiang in 2011 to returning to AU for harmony Week in 2025.
Welcome to share in an inter-cultural / multi-cultural journey.
Welcome to share in an inter-cultural / multi-cultural journey.
Home | AStrangerHereMyself
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May 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Developing "an autoethnographic transmedia journey from Xinjiang to Harmony" via www.robertcettl.com Based on an Australian teacher's 12+ years in China since arriving in Xinjiang in 2011 to returning to AU for harmony Week in 2025.
Welcome to share in an inter-cultural / multi-cultural journey.
Welcome to share in an inter-cultural / multi-cultural journey.
What defines Australian diversity? Opal Sky Media celebrates #Multiculturalism as lived experience, mixing geopolitical commentary with film analysis, exclusive ongoing video series and inter-cultural autoethnographic storytelling. Join us and explore: opalskymedia.com.au
April 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
What defines Australian diversity? Opal Sky Media celebrates #Multiculturalism as lived experience, mixing geopolitical commentary with film analysis, exclusive ongoing video series and inter-cultural autoethnographic storytelling. Join us and explore: opalskymedia.com.au
Interesting | Trump's US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, not only wants AU to go nuclear, but to begin exporting enriched uranium | "Why Trump Administration Wants Australia to Go Nuclear..." | www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZsr... Does that mean Dutton nuclear sector would resume shipments to India?
April 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interesting | Trump's US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, not only wants AU to go nuclear, but to begin exporting enriched uranium | "Why Trump Administration Wants Australia to Go Nuclear..." | www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZsr... Does that mean Dutton nuclear sector would resume shipments to India?
Strategizing Future Global Energy Demand as War Policy | Australia's uncertain nuclear future | would Dutton heed Trump's Energy Secretary advice for AU to develop nuclear + begin shipping enriched uranium? | next: resumption of AU uranium to India? rumble.com/v6sd691-adan...
Adani Factor 1: US bribery/corruption Indictment of India's Adani Group Halted by Trump: now what?
The Adani Factor: Strategizing Future Global Energy Demand as War Policy: an Investigative Discourse Analysis (Part 1) Part 1 of a video series contextualizing India's Adani Group conglomerate interes
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April 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Strategizing Future Global Energy Demand as War Policy | Australia's uncertain nuclear future | would Dutton heed Trump's Energy Secretary advice for AU to develop nuclear + begin shipping enriched uranium? | next: resumption of AU uranium to India? rumble.com/v6sd691-adan...
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words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
March 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
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Rupert Murdoch’s most senior UK executives held an emergency meeting with Rishi Sunak’s government last April over proposed changes to rules over foreign ownership of UK media
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Murdoch execs lobbied Tory government over foreign media ownership law
EXCLUSIVE: The media baron’s top sidekicks demanded a summit with the Sunak administration.
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March 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rupert Murdoch’s most senior UK executives held an emergency meeting with Rishi Sunak’s government last April over proposed changes to rules over foreign ownership of UK media
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“For decades, the World Bank has dictated global economic policies, influencing even developed nations like Australia through its privatisation, deregulation, and corporate-friendly policies.”
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World Bank Alternatives: Breaking Free from Neoliberal Control
By Denis Hay Description World Bank alternatives. Discover why nations are turning away from the World Bank and exploring fairer, development-focused financial alternatives. Learn how they’re regaini...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“For decades, the World Bank has dictated global economic policies, influencing even developed nations like Australia through its privatisation, deregulation, and corporate-friendly policies.”
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Break of Day, Gallipoli and ANZAC ideology in the Australian cinema of disability overland.org.au/2022/10/brea...
Break of Day, Gallipoli and ANZAC ideology in the cinema of disability - Overland literary journal
In an interview in September last year, former Education Minister Alan Tudge responded to critiques of Anzac Day in the Australian National Curriculum as follows: Instead of Anzac Day being presented ...
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March 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Break of Day, Gallipoli and ANZAC ideology in the Australian cinema of disability overland.org.au/2022/10/brea...
2020: China's intercultural communication [IC} with the world in new decade global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/03/... | teaching tertiary IC in CN now for 3 years + this semester | I return to AU (SA) soon | Harmony Week video during @adlfrin.ge to show students curious about AU culture may be cool
China's intercultural communication with the world in new decade
2019 also marked the last year of the second decade of the 21st century. We are stepping into the third decade. During the past two decades, the world has undergone enormous changes, politically and e...
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March 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
2020: China's intercultural communication [IC} with the world in new decade global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/03/... | teaching tertiary IC in CN now for 3 years + this semester | I return to AU (SA) soon | Harmony Week video during @adlfrin.ge to show students curious about AU culture may be cool
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Autoethnographic Film as Postmodern Genre: Using, as a case study, an experimental autoethnographic film, this paper / ebook contextualizes autoethnographic film’s development as a post-modern genre. View complete film and PDF download info free at opalskymedia.com.au/product/auto...
Autoethnographic Film as Postmodern Genre - Opal Sky Media
Research paper exploring autoethnographic film as a postmodern genre using case study critical exegesis,
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December 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Autoethnographic Film as Postmodern Genre: Using, as a case study, an experimental autoethnographic film, this paper / ebook contextualizes autoethnographic film’s development as a post-modern genre. View complete film and PDF download info free at opalskymedia.com.au/product/auto...
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Trump’s accidental truth bomb sinks AUKUS.
February 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Trump’s accidental truth bomb sinks AUKUS.
Intriguing: re: Dutton/LIB nuclear designs, in 2019 Au Senator Canavan met Gautam Adani (now under US indictment) in India + “I am catching up with a minister for Atomic Energy ... constructive discussions” | was/is AU uranium sale (long ago stalled) to be reconsidered within LIB nuclear agenda?
Ten years of Adani scandals and how to fix them - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/ten-yea...
Ten years of Adani scandals and how to fix them
In 2025 it will be 10 years since most Australian news consumers first heard the name Adani.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Intriguing: re: Dutton/LIB nuclear designs, in 2019 Au Senator Canavan met Gautam Adani (now under US indictment) in India + “I am catching up with a minister for Atomic Energy ... constructive discussions” | was/is AU uranium sale (long ago stalled) to be reconsidered within LIB nuclear agenda?
Rubio and US response to BRICS: "in five years, there'll be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the USD that we won't have the ability to sanction them" | a long way from gloating after removing Russia from SWIFT
February 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Rubio and US response to BRICS: "in five years, there'll be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the USD that we won't have the ability to sanction them" | a long way from gloating after removing Russia from SWIFT
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I have ignored the Government’s legal threats and advised their lawyers that @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy has published my article - and I have invited them to put up, or shut up. #auspol #secrecy
February 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I have ignored the Government’s legal threats and advised their lawyers that @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy has published my article - and I have invited them to put up, or shut up. #auspol #secrecy
Meryl Streep recites "The Deer Enclosure" by Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, in Mandarin on the set of a US late-night show (Colbert?) |
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Meryl Streep recites "The Deer Enclosure" by Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, in Mandarin on the set of a US late-night show (Colbert?) |
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I absolutely guarantee we are only at the very start of discovering how deep the fabrications of generative machine learning tools have already infected all fields involving human-created text content.
It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.
It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.
Australian lawyer caught using ChatGPT filed court documents referencing ‘non-existent’ cases
Immigration minister says such conduct must be ‘nipped in bud’ as lawyer referred to office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner for consideration
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February 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I absolutely guarantee we are only at the very start of discovering how deep the fabrications of generative machine learning tools have already infected all fields involving human-created text content.
It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.
It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.
AU Human Rights Commission accepts complaint against Peter Dutton michaelwest.com.au/human-rights...
Human Rights Commission accepts complaint against Peter Dutton - Michael West
The Human Rights Commission has accepted a group legal action against Peter Dutton accusing him of discrimination and inciting racial hatred.
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January 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
AU Human Rights Commission accepts complaint against Peter Dutton michaelwest.com.au/human-rights...
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Why did Minister Catherine King stop in Woomera for a few hours yesterday?
Was it to do with new Defence infrastructure, new power infrastructure (the town lost power for 18 days in October last year), a community grant … or an #AUKUS high level nuclear waste facility? #FOI lodged! #auspol
Was it to do with new Defence infrastructure, new power infrastructure (the town lost power for 18 days in October last year), a community grant … or an #AUKUS high level nuclear waste facility? #FOI lodged! #auspol
January 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Nothing can be certain except for ‘death’ and ‘taxes’, and under our duopoly system of govt, ‘extreme profits for the gas cartel’. Gas prices (which set electricity prices) are out of control because the old parties put the cartel ahead of Australians and Australian businesses. #auspol
Gas prices up, Woodside profits up, customers down - Michael West
WA industry and consumers have enjoyed lower gas prices compared to the eastern states, but no more as Woodside doubles its WA gas price.
michaelwest.com.au
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Nothing can be certain except for ‘death’ and ‘taxes’, and under our duopoly system of govt, ‘extreme profits for the gas cartel’. Gas prices (which set electricity prices) are out of control because the old parties put the cartel ahead of Australians and Australian businesses. #auspol
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In its most recent (30 June 24) stock portfolio holdings report the #FutureFund held 7,908,556 shares in NVIDIA Corp. If that number is unchanged then last night we took a hit of about AUD$300M on that one stock. Just saying! #auspol
Nvidia erases $1 trillion in value in DeepSeek rout
The chipmaker, the poster child of the AI frenzy, sank 18 per cent in the biggest market-cap loss for a single stock in history.
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January 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
In its most recent (30 June 24) stock portfolio holdings report the #FutureFund held 7,908,556 shares in NVIDIA Corp. If that number is unchanged then last night we took a hit of about AUD$300M on that one stock. Just saying! #auspol
AU PM Albanese acknowledges International Holocaust Remembrance Day | My Czech father (post-WW2 refugee to AU: "New Aust." - Bonegilla) listed on US Holocaust Memorial Museum survivors/victims database | not Jewish but Slavic (childhood under Nazis) | expt, video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKYg...
Jiri: Child of the Lebensraum (edit)
YouTube video by Opal Sky Media
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January 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
AU PM Albanese acknowledges International Holocaust Remembrance Day | My Czech father (post-WW2 refugee to AU: "New Aust." - Bonegilla) listed on US Holocaust Memorial Museum survivors/victims database | not Jewish but Slavic (childhood under Nazis) | expt, video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKYg...
"Picture a courthouse with no fu&*ing laws,
picture a cathouse with no fu&*ing whores,
picture a shithouse with no fu&*ing drains,
picture a leader with no fu&*ing brains"
Political commentary? released a few hours ago: latest
Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Jh...
picture a cathouse with no fu&*ing whores,
picture a shithouse with no fu&*ing drains,
picture a leader with no fu&*ing brains"
Political commentary? released a few hours ago: latest
Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Jh...
Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)
YouTube video by Roger Waters
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January 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Picture a courthouse with no fu&*ing laws,
picture a cathouse with no fu&*ing whores,
picture a shithouse with no fu&*ing drains,
picture a leader with no fu&*ing brains"
Political commentary? released a few hours ago: latest
Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Jh...
picture a cathouse with no fu&*ing whores,
picture a shithouse with no fu&*ing drains,
picture a leader with no fu&*ing brains"
Political commentary? released a few hours ago: latest
Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Jh...